US forces have fired on and disabled two Iranian-flagged tankers that attempted to violate the American blockade of Iran’s ports, US Central Command (Centcom) says.

A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet “disabled both tankers after firing precision munitions into their smokestacks, preventing the non-compliant ships from entering Iran”, Centcom said in a post on X, alongside footage of the strikes on the two vessels.